man.config

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:07:16PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
>I've just been playing with Cygwin, and I must say I absolutely love it....
>
>the last time I looked at it was a beta a couple of years ago that was 
>quite accomplished and hanging my system. but now, you have produced a very 
>classy system for all of us who are trapped in windoze land.
>
>one thing I did find was that "man" does not work 'out-of-the-box'. I 
>grabbed an /etc/man.config from an linux system and edited it to reflect 
>the actual paths for the support executables and it seems work OK. (I'm not 
>a wiz on man.config, so I won't claim to have created a perfect one, just a 
>demonstration that it works in principle ;)
>
>hope this is a little bit of a help for you.....

Is this with the Cygwin CD?  There were reported problems with man.config there
but they should be rectified in the net release.

cgf

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